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This lunchtime event is one in a series of brown bag research seminars for staff in the School of Management.

The series aims to provide opportunities to showcase ongoing research and offer a regular space for colleagues across the School to come together and open up research conversations across the thematic groups and research centres.

In this seminar, Marisa McVey, Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights in the School, will be presenting her research.

Introducing her work, McVey notes: “Ensuring that corporations uphold their responsibility to respect human rights remains a complex, contestable and perhaps impossible task. Traditional studies on regulation of business and human rights have tended to focus on the polycentric interactions between states, corporations and rightsholders.”

The presentation will propose that a new perspective is necessary. It will focus on the ‘external experts’ in business and human rights – including consultants, NGOs and social auditors – who are increasingly called upon to carry out human rights due diligence work for multinational corporations.

McVey’s research offers a critical analysis of the business and human rights project and the current practices of corporate responsibility and accountability for human rights.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to School of Management staff.

This meeting of the School of Management’s Knowledge and Practice thematic research group will be a gathering of the K&P reading group.

For this session the group will be joined by Honorary Professor Kathy Lund Dean to discuss Kathy’s 2018 article ‘Academic gerrymandering? expansion and expression of academic work’.

Further details about the meeting have been circulated to group members.

This research seminar will welcome Professor Kim Peijnenburg, EDHEC Business School. Her topic will be ‘Breaking bad: how health shocks prompt crime’.

The seminar is organised jointly by the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (CRBF) and the Financial Institutions and Markets (FIM) research group of the School of Management.

This event is for staff of the University and students in the School, in particular those with an interest in finance and economics.

The School of Management welcomes Honorary Professor Kathy Lund Dean, who will lead this virtual research workshop for all staff and students in the School.

The topic of the session will be ‘Publishing from large projects: next steps for dissertations, theses or large data projects’.

The seminar has been designed to help participants consider what contribution they would like to make and what audiences are most appropriate to showcase their research, in a supportive and interactive space. It will include practical tips for breaking up large projects into publishable ‘chunks’ suitable for many different scholarly outlets such as journals, book chapters or conference submissions.

This research seminar will welcome Dr Giota Papadimitri, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth. Her topic will be ‘Social traits and credit card default: a two-stage prediction framework’.

The seminar is organised jointly by the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (CRBF) and the Financial Institutions and Markets (FIM) research group of the School of Management.

This event is for staff of the University and students in the School, in particular those with an interest in finance and economics.

In this seminar, Steph Haywood, researcher with the Centre for the Study of Philanthropy and Public Good, will be presenting a talk titled, ‘Habitus, capitals, and strategies: the engagement of high-net-worth-individuals in the UK philanthrocapitalism sub-field’.

Introducing her work, Haywood notes: “Despite the growing policy- and agenda-setting abilities of philanthrocapitalists, attention on their perspectives, experiences and approaches has so far been limited. Research has focused overwhelmingly on the US context, and been reliant on secondary data sources.”

In a project designed to address these limitations, she has interviewed 42 philanthropists. This presentation will focus on her findings about interviewees’ habitus. It will distinguishing between their philanthropic habitus, which has developed during their upbringing and shaped their drive to be philanthropic, and their professional habitus, which has developed during their careers and shaped how they seek to engage in philanthropy. These insights contribute a richer understanding of the habitus concept, its development and influence on high-net-worth philanthropy in the UK.

This lunchtime event is one in a series of brown bag research seminars for staff in the School of Management. The series aims to provide opportunities to showcase ongoing research and offer a regular space for colleagues across the School to come together and open up research conversations across the thematic groups and research centres.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to School of Management staff.

This research seminar will welcome Professor Konstantin Sokolov, from Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis. His topic will be ‘Who benefits from securities exchange innovation?’.

The seminar is organised jointly by the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (CRBF) and the Financial Institutions and Markets (FIM) research group of the School of Management.

This event is for staff of the University and students in the School, in particular those with an interest in finance and economics.

This online meeting of the School of Management’s Accounting, Governance and Organisations thematic research group (AGOG) will welcome sociologist of finance Dr Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, from UCL.

He will speak about his forthcoming book, Speculative Communities: living with uncertainty in a financialised world.

Dr Komporozos-Athanasiou describes the book as an “alternative critique of finance capitalism, which centres on the historically generative role of speculation in shaping political, social, and even intimate everyday life under conditions of radical uncertainty”.

He says that the approach he takes in the work is “interdisciplinary, combining economic and historical sociology with social theory to develop a new conceptual framing of ‘financialisation’ and the ‘counter-speculative’ political movements arising in response”.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to group members.

This meeting of the School of Management’s Knowledge and Practice thematic research group will be an opportunity to hear from group members Kirstie Ball, François Puyou and Shona Russell. They will speak about their experiences of blending aspects of an academic portfolio, including teaching, research and leadership.

The session will will focus on sharing insights, reflections, advice and sources of support.

Further details about the meeting have been circulated to group members.

In this seminar, Augusto Rocha and Professor Ross Brown from the Organisations and Society research group will be presenting their paper ‘Capturing conversations in entrepreneurial ecosystems’.

Introducing their work, Rocha and Brown note: “This paper sets out a novel approach to assessing the relational connectivity within entrepreneurial ecosystems by capturing entrepreneurial ‘conversations’. Drawing on real-time data extracted from an event-based social media platform, in combination with social network analysis and qualitative interview data, we provide an in-depth assessment of the relational connections within the city of Edinburgh. […] As well as producing novel empirical insights, this approach provides policy makers with vital strategic policy intelligence to help better inform public policy frameworks and associated interventions.”

This lunchtime event is one in a series of brown bag research seminars for staff in the School of Management. The series aims to provide opportunities to showcase ongoing research and offer a regular space for colleagues across the School to come together and open up research conversations across the thematic groups and research centres.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to School of Management staff.